Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Plot

Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a poor boy living in Scotland whit his family. In the town, Willy Wonka's (Johnny Depp) (the worlds most amazing chocolate-maker) closed down factory exists, but one day, people start to see smoke from the factory again. It is announced that there will be five golden tickets in the candy-bars sent out to the stores.

The first was found by a German child named Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz), the second by Veruca Salt (Julia Winter) from England, the third by Violet Beauregarde (AnnaSophia Robb) from Atlanta, USA, and when the fourth ticket was found by Mike Teavee (Jordan Fry), from Denver, USA, Charlie becomes rather disappointed as his chances of getting the tickets are very small.

One day, Charlie finds a ten pound bill, and buys a chocolate-bar, in it, he finds the last golden ticket, and are invited for a day at the factory, and at the end, someone will win an amazing price!

Opinion

Johnny Depp in one of his craziest roles, but the film is cute, and I think it really is a family-film, and even  younger children can see it.As I remember from reading the book, it does not follow it exactly, but rather well, but I think Willy Wonka is not as eccentric in the book, and he has no problems with his parents, which I think is a nice add from Hollywood (for once!). Even though, of course, the idea of the film is that, do not be greedy, and you will get what you want, it works, but as it is adapted from a children's story, getting the morale completely out of the story is hard. 

I personally would have liked if Helena Bonham Carter had a larger role, as she is an amazing actress, but she is okay as a mother. I also see it rather fun that Christoper Lee is Willy's angry father!

I would really recommend the film to anyone. It suits everyone,  and Johnny Depp makes Willy Wonka more interesting than what he is in the book, and he has an opportunity to really go crazy (a lot better than when he was the Mad-Hatter in Alice in Wonderland). This was the second film Freddie Highmore and Johnny Depp works together, and in this one, Freddie has grown a lot.

Nybakat

För att fly undan den västa solen (är lite röd, så nu är det inne som gäller), så bestämde jag mig för att baka "mealbars". Något annat bra namn kan jag inte komma på. Men de är fyllda med nötter, torkad frukt och allt nyttigt som kommer med dem, men samtidigt djävulskt goda, så man nästan tror det är godis.

Börja med att mortla (eller kör i mixern), blandade nötter och torkad frukt! Man kan köpa nötmix påsar på 150-200 gram, det fungerar alldeles utmärkt.



Blanda sedan i nästan en hel förpackning Hasselnötsmassa.

Här får ni se lite hur mycket nötter och bär ni har. Det får inte bli för mycket, men lagom mycket så att smeten inte rasar isär. Egentligen ska det vara jordnötssmör, och med jordnötssmör blir smaken mindre söt, är mer socker i hasselnötsmassa, men med en pojkvän som hatar jordnötter så får man göra så ibland!

Sedan har man i lite citronsaft, och lägger det hela i en låg, lånpanna. Ni kan själva bestämma hur tjocka de ska vara.

Jag fick göra mina i en matlåda, för något annat fann jag inte, så mina kommer bli smala, på bredde, tjocka på höjden och halvlånga istället.



Sedan stoppar man dem i frysen, tills de har stelnat. Jag skulle säga att det är bättre att de är för hårda och måste tina, än att de är för mjuka och inte kan ätas utan att rasa  isär-

Vill man så kan man ringla choklad över, eller doppa dem i choklad när de är stelnade, och köra in dem i frysen en kort stund till.

Lucky day and hot chocolate recipe!

Walking out the door this morning, it was cold! Absolutley freezing cold!

But that also put a smile on my face, finally, now you can put on scarves, gloves, hats, woolen caps, and lots of others accessories. My two faourite accessories must be two of my scarves, one is a bright red enormous one made out of acrylics and my red and white palestina scarf.

Yesterday I also got the best present for my birthday (except for the Mr coming over for the weekend) and that was a big package of scrapping things! There were everything from stickers, to papers and envelopes, so now there will be scrapping going on!

As soon as I'm finished with a discussion and have written two papers and the ideas for an oral presentation!
But at least I have the idea for some of the work. Well, now, no more school talk, I have a bad habit of doing that all the time I notice.

Been watching Citizen Kane now, and even though the story is not so fun, not really boring either, but for sure not catchy, the footage and the way they use the camera is brilliant, at least when you think of the fact it's made in 40's. I probably won't watch the film again though.

The story is simple (and I think I have seen modern films with this story too), it is the poor boy who is sent off to live with some rich man, and get brought up that way. Mr Kane becomes the number one chief executor on many of the famous news papers, but of course the most sold amount of papers in a day, is the one when he dies. He marries two famous women, and the whole idea with the film is that a group of movie makers is going to find out WHO Mr Kane really was, what did his last words "Rose Bud" mean? Whom was Charlie Kane deep inside? And the film plainly said, just his life story told by his old friends and family. A cute film, but with a tone of seriuosness and a dark side, how power makes people go crazy, think they can do anything, to anyone.

Also I met a friend today a quicky that I haven't seen in a while to get her some books I borrowed long ago! But then all I could think of was home, sleep, and football tonight. Haven't sleept so well this night
So after a hectic day at University, and no training as I don't want to pull my muscles again there will be a nice relaxing evening, with a book and big cup of hot chocolate and looking forward for the book fair in Gothenburg this weekend.

How to make your own delicious hot choclate that will make you soft in the edges. Both litterally and metaphorically.
This will be about 2-3 dl of hot chocolate (2 cups)
Ingredients:
1½ dl of milk
20-30 grams of dark chocolate
½ table spoon of cacao
2-3 dl of cream (some of it will get whipped)
Warm up 1½ dl of milk with some dark chocolate (the more you use, the thicker it gets, but just a few pieces is enough) and mix in half a spoon of cacao and half a dl of cream. The rest of the cream is preferably whipped and put in the cup just before drinking it. Alternativley you can make 1 dl of strong coffee, heat the milk and add the coffee and chocolate (if you like, add some grated almonds). Add the cream and put whipped cream in it when served. This will probably be 3 cups instead of two as you add the coffee, not switch it for something.

It makes any evening better than the day was. Also had the time to take some photos (as you see in the blogpost) edit them in Photoshop and put them here, will be sat fixing up the picasa web album in a bit too, but now, shower and 1408! See you tomorrow!

As I promised...

Well, as I promised. You well get my recipe for my toffee/caramel appel pie.

I usually don't have exact amount of everything as I do it according to how big the pie will be, but I will give it a try.

Put oven on 225 degrees C

Mix 2,5 dl of flour with 100 grams of butter and 1 dl of sugar (you can use brown sugar if you prefere that). You can also add some vanilla sugar if you like that (I use to do that if I can.
Make the batter smooth and let it rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

While waiting peel 8-10 apples, depending on size and cut in pieces (you decide your self how big). Put only little water in a pot and add the apples and some cinnamon. Add about 1 dl of cream and 1 dl of syrup (may differ a bit, depending on how creamy you want it.

If the batter is done, put it in the baking tin and add the caramel/apple sauce on it (here you can choose yourself if you want to make it look like a real american apple pie or not. If you do, you might have to make some extra batter for the lid.
Put it in the oven till the batter is well done.

Serve with vanilla ice cream when the pie has cooled and the caramel has gotten creamy(ier).

And this is how my birthday cupcakes from yesterday looks likes! Yummy I'd say.
The icing is a lemon icing that are really great and can be used on almost anything. Just mix icing sugar and lemon juice together till it get thick, put it on the pastry and put it in the fridge for a while and it will be awesome!

Speaking about awesome! My essay is now finnished and it looks freeeeaaaking awesome I think! Lots better than it did before I have to say...

Only thing is... My teacher are trying to convince me I don't know the swedish language.
In this example i have used the word medium... In SAOL this is the definition of 'Medium':
s. mediet; pl. medier hellre än media, best. pl. medierna hellre än media. kanal för informations spridning"
While she wants me to use the word media... Which when I look in a dictionary says "Look under medium"...
Way to go Sherlock...
Well, I actually think I was right on this one...

Weel, as it is my birthday, I won't moan to much about it, I'll just sit eating muffins and have a good time!

Essays and chocolate cakes!

Is sat trying to reason what the f**k a teacher is trying to tell me what to do. She has ordered sources on about every sentence of my essay, do I know absolutley nothing?
Am I really that stupid?
I guess so...

Okay, I tried one of the hardest subjects on earth I think, and it is really hard!

Well, anyway, only one day to my birthday! Woho!
And on friday the boyfriend is coming over to celebrate it. That will be kind of awesome!

The main thing then, will be my absolutley super yummy choclate cake made into birthday cupcakes with lemon icing!

You want the recipe? Well I thought so, so here it comes! The recipe is for one cake or 8-12 muffins (depending on size) and this is not for the faint hearted, it's not hard to do, but it takes some time so preparing the filling and the icing while it cools is a good idea!

Cake:
225 grams of butter
2,5 dl of brown sugar
2,5 dl of milk
100 grams of chocolate (preferably dark)
4 egg yolks
4 dl of flour
2 tablespoons of cacao
2 teaspoons of vanilla
1,5 teaspoon of baking powder
4 egg whites

Put the oven on 175 degrees Celcius (374 Farenheit). Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and mix it until it's smooth (could be done in a mixer). Heat the milk and the chocolate carefully while adding the egg yolks into the butter/sugar mix (could also be done in a mixer).
Put the dry ingredients in a bowl and add everyother with the milk and choclate sauce into the butter/sugar/yolk mix.
Whisk the egg whites hard and add in the cake batter.
Put it in a baking tin and let it bake for about 45 minutes (you can check if it is done by sticking a pin into it, if there is no cake batter on the pin, it is done). If you do muffins, it is important to remember to add the filling before the batter is put in the oven!

Filling:
2 tablespoons of strong coffee (i.e espresso)
50 grams of chocolate
75 grams of butter
1 dl of icing sugar

Melt the chocolate with the coffe while mixing the butter and icing sugar. Mix it together and split the cake in two, it is most important that the cake is cold before you put the filling on it, or it will run of the cake.

Icing (the original):
150 grams of chocolate
2 tablespoons of icing sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
1,5 dl of creme fraiche

Melt the chocolate and add all the sugar. Add the creme fraiche bit by bit to a smooth mixture and put it on the cake. Add decorations after your own head.

P.S if you want the chocolate lemon cupcakes, instead of the icing you add 1 teaspoon of lemon/water with icing sugar (how much depends on how thick you want itm the more sugar, the thicker mixture) and put on the muffins when cold!

Well, I hope you enjoyed this, I know I do and a lot of people like it ;)

That's all for today! Tomorrow, you will get to know how the essay was going and how to make caramel apple pie!